[Adduser-devel] Bug#469165: /usr/sbin/deluser: how did that make it into testing?

[Christian Pernegger]

Package: adduser
Version: 3.106
Followup-For: Bug #469165


Admittedly I don't delete users that often, so this bug may be here
for some time, but I'm wondering how this could get into 'testing'.

As it is deluser
- can't delete any user
- deletes the root account if one isn't very fast

Please remove the strange CTRL-C check and maybe add a --force flag
instead, without which such an operation would be impossible.

If a new adduser package isn't going to hit testing very soon please
consider rolling back the version in testing to the last working one
in the meantime.

*shudder*

Chris


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.20     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.1.0-2  change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.8.8-12   The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true